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[Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>]

Hi,


> I just got bitten by an util-linux update breaking my login. Seems like 
> this is http://www.sourcemage.org/issues/110 and there is code in FINAL 
> dealing with this:
> 
> if [ "${VERSION:0:4}" == "2.20" ] && [ "${OLD_SPELL_VERSION:0:4}" == "2.19" 
> ]; then
>   message "New version of util-linux needs to update /etc/inittab ..." &&
>   cp $INSTALL_ROOT/etc/inittab $INSTALL_ROOT/etc/inittab-$(date 
> +'%Y%m%d%H%M') &&
>   sed -i "s:/dev/tty:tty:" $INSTALL_ROOT/etc/inittab &&
>   message "Updated"
> fi &&
> 
> Now, of course I broke this by doing the update too late, jumping from 2.19 
> to 2.21. So I have two questions about this:
> 
> 1. Was the intention to delete the FINAL code when updating to 2.21? 
> Because now it is dead meat right there.
> 2. I don't really like the sed line there ... it doesn't check if there is 
> actually agetty in the line it works on. There are other getty programs.
> 
> So ... what's the intention here? Just remove the code as the update to 
> 2.20 is history?
> 
> 
> Alrighty then,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> PS: I want to add that I really, really am angry at util-linux folks for 
> not just supporting /dev paths anyway. What's so hard about this?


if you know better solution just fix it.
Seems FINAL really need to be updated. Test if it is version from
install iso or if /etc/inittab still contains /dev should be added.

Another question is how many months without update we guarantee that
sorcery system-update works without similar problems.

I sent info about this problem to sm-discuss on 2011-08-30. Nobody but
Stealth was interested. Bug 110 was closed as fixed. Nobody protests.
How many months we need to disccuss this kind of problems/solutions?

Just now I remember I updated and reverted subversion to 1.7.0 on
2011-10-13. I wrote info to sm-discuss about problem with this update
[1]. Nobody but Jaka Kranjc answered. Sorcery could handle it. After two
months of waiting I created on 2011-12-21 bug report with patch for
sorcery [2]. Next 4 month again nothing. How many months we need to
discuss this kind of problems?

Sorry guys I am really upset again. Nobody is really interested in
Source Mage. How many active developers we really have [3]? What are our
plans?

I would ask:
When we will have normal attractive web pages?
When we pull devel-xorg-modular into test grimoire?
How many developers tested glibc, udev, kmod from devel branches?
When we pull them into test?
What will we do with systemd, /usr merge?
How many developers really test and fix gcc 4.7.0? Or we just it
reverted and no more interested? Seems I have no problem with 4.7.
When we will have new stable install iso?
When we will have new sorcery?
What to do with .la files?
...


[1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2011-October/020834.html

[2] http://www.sourcemage.org/issues/336

[3] http://scmweb.sourcemage.org/

-- 
Ladislav Hagara